[Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (37 pages long!)

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B
• Professor: Kyle Cameron

Document Summary

The big five five major dimensions of personality: canoe: conscientiousness dimension of personality-reflecting traits like being dependable, organized, reliable, ambitious, hard-working, and persevering. Best indicator of job performance: agreeableness dimension of personality-reflecting traits like being kind, cooperative, sympathetic, helpful, courteous, warm, neuroticism - dimension of personality-reflecting traits like being nervous, moody, emotional, insecure, jealous, unstable. High neuroticism reports lower job satisfaction and tend to report more stressful events in day-to-day lives: openness to experience - dimension of personality-reflecting traits like being curious, imaginative, creative, complex, refined, sophisticated. Not best predictor of job performance across jobs: extraversion - dimension of personality-reflecting traits like being talkative, sociable, passionate, assertive, bold, dominant. Easiest to judge in zero-acquaintance situation with no previous interactions. Based on these definitions, conscientiousness and then emotional stability / neuroticism are most backed by research with correlations between task performance: 0. 2 and 0. 13 correlations, respectively (moderate correlation, across most jobs holds true.